Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- With continuity or continuation; without interruption; unbrokenly.
Wiktionary
- adv. Without pause.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a continuous maner; without interruption.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. with unflagging resolve
- adv. at every point
Etymologies
- continuous + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Congress, the media and America have been using the term continuously to talk about proposed solutions to the current financial crisis.”
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“What was your purpose in continuously, almost hypnotically panning the camera from side to side in one specific office scene?”
“Money continuously is been poured into tourism with the rich in mind, yet poverty, homelessness and drug infestation continues to plague Puerto Rico.”
“Republicans should replace unpopular insurance coverage mandates with a pledge of protection against coverage exclusions for pre-existing health conditions that is limited to those who remain continuously insured over time.”
“Just as you begin to expect the plot to become sodden with tragedy – a child coughs continuously from a bedroom; a young man squares up to his flighty wife with a knife – it slips into something more acerbic.”
“McCain continuously shoots down any policy that is aimed at helping Americans.”
“The human brain continuously processes, weighs, and forms decision trees about a tremendous amount of information from the ‘outside’ world, integrating it to a gestalt map that informs and influences everything we do or say.”
“I was raised in Virginia, took French continuously from the age of 10 through 20, and used it a great deal after that in graduate school and my first job.”
“Underestimating your opponent is not something you would have learned from these two strategists, but it is something you engage in continuously with those with whom you disagree politically.”
“At the same time that they said this they called continuously for Cicero: but the crowd did not believe that they were sincere, and was not easily calmed.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘continuously’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1696 more...
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Words that still give me trouble
Either confusing pairs, or words whose meaning I just have a hard time remembering.
venal, venial, continually, continuously, biannually, biennially, enervating, fulsome, condign, recondite, brachiate, branchiate and 14 more...
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since sense
a reflection on siththen - a word used during and before Chaucer's time
simulacrum, asparagales, munchener, didymium, adamant, iris wipe, star wipe, heart wipe, clock wipe, matrix wipe, abiogenesis, cloff and 47 more...
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